Under the Cortex 2024 in Review: 10 Most Popular Articles from APS Journals
Jan 9, 2025
Hannah Brown, the managing editor of APS's Observer magazine, joins to discuss the year's most popular journal articles. They probe the empirical basis of the five love languages, highlighting how misconceptions and biases cloud our understanding. The impact of early life stress on children's health is brought to light, emphasizing child-parent therapy's role in healing. Additionally, the duo tackles self-censorship in psychological research and explores global variations in gender equality, encouraging open dialogue and critical thinking in academia.
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Sleep and Mental Health Link
- Sleep disturbance is a risk factor for social-emotional disorders in adolescents.
- Repetitive negative thinking before sleep worsens symptoms like anxiety and depression.
Small Effects in Psychology
- Effect sizes in psychology are often small due to the complexity of human behavior.
- Huge sample sizes are required to detect subtle but real relationships.
Reorganizing Psychopathology
- Reorganizing DSM symptoms using data-driven hierarchies reveals different categories.
- This nuanced view may improve diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.